Conrad's narrative method

Author(s)

• Lothe, Jakob

Bibliographic Information

Conrad's narrative method

Jakob Lothe

（Clarendon paperbacks）

Clarendon Press , Oxford University Press, 1991, 1889

• : pbk

Note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

This important addition to Conrad studies, as well as to the study of narrative, is the first book-length attempt to apply recent developments in critical theory and practice to the whole canon of Conrad's works. Using a broadly structuralist approach, Dr Lothe analyses Conrad's sophisticated narrative method, focusing on his use of devices, functions, variations, and thematic effects or implications. More widely, he explores the relationship between Conrad's narrative method and the complex thematics engendered and shaped by this method. Discussing the notions of major post-structuralist critics such as Edward W. Said and J. Hillis Miller, he develops and applies a critical methodology which is flexible enough to respond to the varying interpretative problems presented by Conrad's fiction.

Table of Contents

• "Heart of Darkness" contrasted with "Chance" - narrative success and narrative failure
• "An Outpost of Progress" - distanced authorial narrative as textual concentration
• "The Secret Sharer" - economical personal narrative
• "The Tale" - epistemological uncertainty dramatized through three concentric tales
• "The Nigger of the "Narcissus"" - problematic but effective combination of authorial and personal narrative
• "Typhoon" - thematically productive narrative simplicity
• "The Shadow-Line" - ultimate, intense personal narrative
• "Lord Jim" - authorial narrative as diverse, edited personal narration
• "Nostromo" - panoramic, all-inclusive authorial narrative
• "The Secret Agent" - ironic and disillusioned authorial narrative
• "Under Western Eyes" - modulation of simplistic personal narrative through authorial irony.

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Details

• NCID: BA12462798
• ISBN:
  • 0198122551
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Oxford [England],New York ; Tokyo
• Pages/Volumes: xi, 315 p.
• Size: 22 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : PR6005.O4
  • DC19 : 823/.912
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Conrad, Joseph, 1857-1924 -- Technique
  • LCSH : Narration (Rhetoric)
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA07221817